Ryan Anderson, the National Guardsmen accused of attempting to peddle sensitive military information to al Qaeda, will face a court-martial–but not the death penalty:

At a hearing in May, prosecutors presented a secretly recorded video showing Anderson meeting with two undercover military officials who were posing as members of al-Qaida.

In the meeting, Anderson offered information about weaknesses in the M1A1 Abrams, the military’s primary battle tank, according to the video.

He could face life in prison if convicted. Fort Lewis spokesman Joe Hitt said Soriano would not give any public explanation for why he decided not to pursue the death penalty.

I wrote about his usenet ramblings here. The Spokane Spokesman-Review reprinted his letter-to-the-editor rants here. He’s the Bizarro John Walker Lindh.